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Chapter 31 - Chapter 31 - Tyler Returns
Tony Stark sat at the controls of the Doctor's ship running a scan.
Lance walked into the room. "Still at it?"
"Yeah." He told him absentmindedly. "I'm determined."
Lance shook his head. "We should have found her by now-"
"It doesn't make sense! Her bracelet has a tracking device on it." Tony insisted.
Lance nodded and sat down in the chair at the other panel. "Yeah. Something is either blocking it, or it's been destroyed."
Tony didn't look up. "It's not been destroyed. Ours would have been notified if it had."
"If she's even still down there."
Tony shook his head. "That's my thought, too. I'm using every scanner I can."
Lance sighed and crossed his arms. "Bassanio needs to wake his ass up and tell us what happened."
"John looked in his head-"
"Yeah, and he's so pissed he didn't see anything. This shit with Legate and Genie has him so wound up."
"Pissed drunk or pissed angry?"
"Both." Lance rubbed his face.
"Worthless at the moment?"
"Well, I wouldn't say that."
Tony nodded and went back to his scans.
Lance sighed and rested his hands on the top of his head.
Tony's watch beeped. He looked at it and smiled. "Oh, I have you!"
Lance rose his eyebrow. "Jackie?"
Tony looked up at Lewis. "Tony Tyler. He's in his bedroom on the island."
"How the hell do you know that?"
Tony rubbed his hands together. "Take over here, and let me go punch the fucker out."
Lance held up his hand. "I'm going to pretend I didn't hear any of this."
Tony rubbed his hands together in excitement. "Just a ten minute head start. Then, come be the hero-"
"Done! Go punch him out." Lance told him.
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The bearded Tony Tyler stood in front of the mirror in his bathroom as the shower heated up. He rolled his shoulder and grimaced in pain. He pulled up the sleeve of his shirt, carefully, and looked at his arm that he had bandaged up.
"Fucking alien." He complained as he looked at it in the mirror and wiped it clean with a cloth. "Aw."
He walked into his bedroom and opened the top drawer to look for the small medical device he had used to heal himself so many times. Just as he located it, someone grabbed him from behind.
He stepped back and tried to throw them into the dresser. The attacker stepped to the side and put him in a headlock.
"And welcome back, Mr. Tyler." Tony said.
"Let me go." Tony Tyler grunted.
"Make me you shit!"
Tony Tyler reached around and kicked Stark's feet out from under him. He hit the ground hard, but he rolled over quickly and was back on his feet in time to block a swing.
Tony Tyler grabbed the back of Stark's head and pushed it into his knee that he brought up. Stark managed to turn his head to avoid having his nose broken, and brought his elbow up to strike Tony in the nose.
Blinded by his tears, Tony Tyler grabbed his face.
Stark already had activated his watch and it blew a charge of electricity, striking Tony Tyler in the chest and pushing him into the wall.
He grunted as he slid down the wall. Stark walked over and grabbed him by the front of the shirt. "Where is the ship?"
Tony rose up both of his hands and punched Stark's ears at the same time.
Stunned, Stark let him go.
Tony coughed and stood up. "Leave me alone, Tony."
Tony shook his head and rose his hands to ready himself to fight again. "I've been waiting on that phone call, kid."
Tony pointed at him. "I can explain-"
"And I really would like to hear this-"
"Then stop hitting me!"
"You started this!"
Unseen, Lance had transported in the room and hit Tony Tyler in the back of the head, knocking him out. He looked up at Stark. "Feel better?"
"That was more like two minutes, Lance." Stark complained and stepped over Tony's unconscious body to grab his wrist.
Lance knelt down and looked Tony Tyler over. "Two minutes was plenty of time."
"Override, Master User." Stark spoke.
The bracelet spoke. "Greetings, Mr. Stark."
"Unlock."
The bracelet opened up and Stark took it off of Tony's wrist. "I think he has a cell key."
Lance pulled out the transport trigger. "Noted. He can't get out of a rope."
Stark grinned and typed something on his bracelet that he read off of Tony's. "My ship is….."
Lance looked up at him. "Hopefully in one piece."
"On John's other island. Near Hawaii. Why didn't we look there?"
Lance shook his head. "The resort close-by lands ships. The moon base would have picked it up."
"It has a cloak on it!" Stark groaned. "Damn it. Let me go see what the hell."
He popped away.
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Stark popped to a large grassy area on the island where Rose and the Doctor first had built their home. The sun was setting and Tony stood directly under his ship. She looked perfect. He grinned up at her. "And hello there."
He walked over pressed his finger to the gangplank. It opened with a loud hiss and the lights inside came on. He walked inside and looked around. The temperature was a bit warmer than he would travel with, but he guessed it was because Tony had just turned it off when he returned. The heat from outside had came into the ship.
As he walked around, he didn't note any damage. He nodded, "This looks alright."
He turned and walked into the storage room where he had put three of his suits. Only two were there. One of them was missing an arm and had blast marks on the chest. He stood and looked at it. "What have you been shooting at, Tyler?"
He turned off the light and walked down the hallway to the control room. He sat down and powered up the navigation. "Jarvis-"
He remembered he had disabled Jarvis as soon as he found out that Tony had stolen the ship.
He pulled his phone out of his pocket and dialed a number. "Hey Arcite, it's me. Are you still on the ship?"
He listened.
"Cool. I need you to transport me and my ship over to my home on the island. I'm sending you the numbers now. Yeah, I'm in it."
He looked out at the wind screen just as everything faded away.
"Fucker." Tony grumbled. "She's mine."
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If you have never heard it, they are singing "Fruit Salad" by the Wiggles.
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